Feelings for _forms_ seem to relate even more definitely to the
activity element. The pleasure for the most part is described as
being far less sensual, if indeed, so at all. Small _upright ovals_,
1-1/2 × 1 in., are most pleasant, because somehow they are "more
suggestive of definiteness." _Circles_ one inch in diameter are next
in order of value as to their feeling-tones. _Horizontal ovals_ are
less pleasant still, though for most subjects not unpleasant. Upright
ovals are best, as the kind of action apparently called for by the
aroused feeling is most agreeable and suitable to the subject's
natural upright position of body. An explanation of this general
result of introspection, as well as the preference for the particular
size chosen almost without exception, is attempted in another part
of this report, where are given in more detail the various kinds of
bodily accompaniments. The feelings for those ovals have also the
characters of stimulation, mild excitement, and a feeling of easy
freedom in a pleasing kind of activity. Tension is always present as
an agreeable element when reported at all. This element is coupled
with the "feeling of assurance of certainty" which the whole situation
calls for. It often seems clearly to suggest that one do something.
Circles tend more to suggest inner stability and completeness. They
stand on their own axes. Here there is a sense of satisfaction,
complacency, and sufficiency. The feeling here of a call for immediate
activity on the part of the subject is weak and indefinite, when not
altogether absent. The subjects do not use for this experience such
expressions as excitement, tension, irritation, quick contraction, or
the impulse to self-assertion. Horizontal ovals are least pleasant, it
seems to me, for obvious reasons. Here such noted elements as "felt
unnaturalness," "difficulty of adapting one's self," "wrong direction
of activity," which alone and in themselves would be unpleasant, are
nevertheless more than counterbalanced by other and pleasing elements,
such as symmetry, definiteness, partial stability, and other agreeable
features. Often these latter features are not pronounced, and then the
judgment is, that the total feeling is unpleasant.
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